Who or what is Apollyon?
Jun 11, 2015 9:31:12 GMT
Post by KeithS on Jun 11, 2015 9:31:12 GMT
Saraswati files her report to the Sigils. It reads as follows:
"I, and my fellow Sigils, Darja, Alexanxdria, and Adira, did accept a contract to investigate why an Academy Necromancer was .... absent without leave .. and to see if him and his family were okay.
Upon gaining entry to the house, we discovered a hole in the floor. A ladder led down to a chamber containing a ghast and ghoul (the bodies of the mother and daughter) as well as some sort of arcane circle containing the ashes of a corpse and the spirit/spectre? of the daughter, Polly. We fought and defeated the undead and Polly told us that she had been trapped in the circle and bound to a rather expensive crystal. She described a Dark Man, with glowing red eyes, who had been bound to the stone, but her father had conducted some sort of ritual and swapped the connection from the Dark Man to Polly, trapping her and freeing him. At this stage, our plan was to remove the crystal from that place and take it to the Sigils for examination. We also were told that breaking the crystal would free Polly so her soul could be released.
It was then that Darkness encroached ... and .. somehow the crystal was broken. To our horror, we discovered that we had inadvertantly freed a malevolent shadow entity that called itself Apollyon, which attacked us through our fears. All we could do was to flee the area and file this report.
I implore that research be done, both here, and at the Academy, to determine if there is any previous mentions of Apollyon and if there are records that would help defeat it.
Report filed this day by my hand - Skilti Saraswati.
"I, and my fellow Sigils, Darja, Alexanxdria, and Adira, did accept a contract to investigate why an Academy Necromancer was .... absent without leave .. and to see if him and his family were okay.
Upon gaining entry to the house, we discovered a hole in the floor. A ladder led down to a chamber containing a ghast and ghoul (the bodies of the mother and daughter) as well as some sort of arcane circle containing the ashes of a corpse and the spirit/spectre? of the daughter, Polly. We fought and defeated the undead and Polly told us that she had been trapped in the circle and bound to a rather expensive crystal. She described a Dark Man, with glowing red eyes, who had been bound to the stone, but her father had conducted some sort of ritual and swapped the connection from the Dark Man to Polly, trapping her and freeing him. At this stage, our plan was to remove the crystal from that place and take it to the Sigils for examination. We also were told that breaking the crystal would free Polly so her soul could be released.
It was then that Darkness encroached ... and .. somehow the crystal was broken. To our horror, we discovered that we had inadvertantly freed a malevolent shadow entity that called itself Apollyon, which attacked us through our fears. All we could do was to flee the area and file this report.
I implore that research be done, both here, and at the Academy, to determine if there is any previous mentions of Apollyon and if there are records that would help defeat it.
Report filed this day by my hand - Skilti Saraswati.